28th June: Our Interactive QR Code trail of Llanharan won £700 from the People's Collection Wales today in the Welsh Heritage School's Initiative Awards at the Millennium Stadium. Here is our QR Code map.
4th March: We received a visit from students from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama today who put on a whole school performance of their school opera, Dr Ferret and his Bad Medicine. Here's a blog post about it: CLICK HERE
1st March: We held our St David's Day Eisteddfod this afternoon, which was covered live again by our school Twitter account @llanharanps and our Year 5/6 account @lps140club. Full results can be found below. Llongyfarchiadau Ty Gwyn! Here's a blog about it: CLICK HERE
22nd February: Cruiser the reading dog came into school today to listen to some stories read by our pupils. Many thanks to the Bark and Read foundation for their support in this exciting initiative. 6th February: Newsletter
. 31st January: South Wales Police came into school today to help with a triple murder investigation! CLICK HERE
24th January: School will be open today. Many thanks to the help from some parents who have been working on clearing the hill up to school.
23rd January: UPDATE: Due to the ongoing poor conditions at school and the condition of the hill, we again have to close today. Sorry for any inconvenience this causes. Mrs Price: "I hope to open the school today but need to run a risk assessment first. I will text parents to confirm."
22nd January: Due to the icy conditions and presently falling snow, school will be closed today.
20th January: School will be open as usual tomorrow. If there is any change in the weather overnight then we will reassess in the morning.
18th January: Llanharan Primary School is closed today due to the adverse weather conditions we are currently experiencing.
10th January 2013: We would like to welcome Mr. Griffiths, our new Deputy Head to Llanharan Primary School. He has settled into his new role as Deputy and as our Year 1/2 teacher.
26th October: We have all been watching with anticipation the great work that the ladies from Bethesda Art have been doing in putting our mural up on the front of the school. It looks amazing and has pieces of artwork that our pupils have been working on with the artist's support. Many thanks to them. Here we have a photograph credited to one of our parents, Mr. Case from our Twitter feed @llanharanps
9th October: School will be closed today until further notice due to a gas leak. Apologies for any inconvenience. 26th September: As a lot of you may have already noticed, we have a fantastic new sign at the front of our school.
7th September: We held our school council elections today and our new members for this year are as follows: Year 6:Shani, Chloe, Jordan Watts and Jordan White Year 5: Cerys and Tawfiq Year 4: Malea and Ellis Year 3: Cassie and Ryan Year 2: Eliza and Farrah Year 1: Amie-Lee and Cody Reception: Ellie-Ann and Nikolai
Congratulations to all!
4th September 2012: Welcome back to a new year. We have two newsletters which went home today but can also be downloaded from here.
: 16th July: Staffing for next academic year: Nursery/Reception - Mrs. Killick with Mrs. Hopkins and Miss Hughes Year 1/2 - Mr. Arthur with Mrs Dunford Year 3/4 - Mrs. Hobrow Year 5/6 - Mr. Roberts
Mrs. Brooks will be covering PPA sessions and staff training courses and we warmly welcome her to our team.
Miss Williams will be leading language support in her role as a full time Additional Learning Needs Coordinator.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank Miss Rose and wish her every success in her new teaching post.
Monday 3rd September - INSET Pupils will return to school on Tueday 6th September Thursday 6th September - INSET Regional Sports Wales will be hosting a Spy/Detective club on this day for parents/guardians who will require care provision on this date. The cost for 9:00am to 3:30pm being £15.00 and the session from 8:00am to 5:00pm being £22.00. Packed lunches will be required.
10th July: We received a £200 prize at the Welsh Heritage Schools Initiative today at a ceremony held at the Park & Dare theatre in Treorchy. The prize was awarded for a World War Two project produced by Year 4/5/6.
9th July: Mr Roberts was chosen as one of 11 teachers to share good practice in Literacy today at a celebration of the ESIS Writing Project.
25th June: We celebrated London 2012 World Sports Day in school today by allowing all pupils a chance to experience playing three Paralympic sports; Goal-ball, Sitting volley-ball and Boccia. Everyone had great fun but also learned a lot about Paralympic sports.
22nd June: Our Year 4/5/6 class had their 4th Stats in Sound day today at the National Botanical Gardens of Wales. Their Blog post can be read HERE. Here's a slideshow of the photos Mr. Roberts took on his travels with his group.
18th June: We've had a busy day here in school today! The day started with our Year 1/2 Class Assembly on the Olympics with a packed hall full of parents and grand-parents. Community Music Wales were back to work with our Year 4/5/6 class on Day 3 of their Stats in Sound project; a blog of their activities can be found HERE. The Muni Arts Centre came to work on a song-writing project with our Year 5's where they began the process of writing a song about the environment.
17th June: A blog for Day 2 of our Year 4/5/6 Stats in Sound project with Community Music Wales including a report of their trip to G24i HERE
12th June: Our Year 4/5/6 class had their first session working with Community Music Wales on their 'Stats in Sound' project. Here are two links to read about what they have been doing: Community Wales - Stats in Sound, Llanharan Primary School - HERE Year 4/5/6 Class Blog - Stats in Sound Day 1 - HERE
11th June: We took a team of 11 pupils from Years 3-6 to Haile Park in Cardiff today to take part in the Wales Rugby League and Introsport Primary Rugby League Cup. Before the competition started we had a training session from John from Wales Ruby League and had a chat with Lee, who came to teach us a few weeks back in school. We then played Hawthorn Primary in a warm-up game, coming away victorious by three tries to one, with tries coming from Charlie, Jordan and Jack. We moved into the final where we again played Hawthorn and were unfortunate to suffer deafeat with an exact reverse of the score, 2-3. Tries from David and Lauren saw the game finish 2-2 which pushed us into Extra time. The competition was close with near misses from both side and we moved into sudden death! This resulted in each team having to lose a player after a set number of time and would continue until a try was scored. The first player penalyt came in and both teams went down to 6 a-side. We were pushing close to the line with Jordan just coming short by mere milimetres when a pass was thrown and an interception made, the opposition runner just evading Jack's despearate back-tracking chase to score the winning try. Everyone had great fun and enjoyed our day out playing in a tournament, which is unfamiliar territory for a lot of our members. Many thanks to the organisers for holding the event. Our 11 pupil team consisted of David, Lauren (Yr6), Jack, Jordan (Yr5), Ben, Cerys, Charlie, Maya, Sophie, Tawfiq (Yr4) & Dylan (Yr3).
1st June: We held our Llanharan Primary Olympics today. We woke to see mist and fine drizzle but there was never any doubt that our special day wouldn't go ahead. We were also privileged to be joined by two VIPs this year; 11 times Paralympic Gold medalist David Roberts CBE and London 2012 Olympic Torch bearer Melanie Stephenson. David was kind enough to bring along one of his Paralympic Golds and Melanie brought along the London 2012 Olympic Torch that she carried into Coopers Field in Cardiff to light the cauldron at the Torch Relay celebrations a week ago today.
We began proceedings with all of our pupils marching up onto the field in class order taking part in our parade of flags. The 26 flags represented the family links that our pupils have across the world. We then moved onto our opening ceremony with our 'Flame Dance' to the tune of Chariots of Fire. This flame dance featured Melanie and her Olympic Torch as she 'lit' one of our pupils to instigate the performance.
We then moved onto the competition, which was fierce, competitive and fun! Our events included; sprint, obstacle race, standing jump, discuss, infant marathon, junior marathon and the junior sprint relay. After an afternoon of tense competition the final house standings stood at:
3rd: Ty Gwyrdd 2nd: Ty Coch 1st: Ty Gwyn
The day ended with the presentation of the trophy and each pupil being awarded the special commemorative Llanharan Primary School 2012 Olympics medal. Congratulations to everyone involved, pupils, parents and staff. A selection of photos can be seen on our Twitter Feed HERE @llanharanps
25th May: Our school has been selected as one of only two schools from Wales to be selected to work on a prestigious 'Stats in Sound' project with the National Botanical Gardens for Wales. Mr. Roberts' class has been chosen and details and permission slips are being sent home with the pupils today. A copy of the letter can be found below.
22nd May: Our Juniors went to watch the Philharmonia Orchestra's Music Quest today at St. David's Hall. Visit our Year 5/6 blog HERE to read more and watch a video of some of the performance.
17th May: Councillor Stephens visited the school today on behalf of the Community Council to give all of our pupils a special Queen's Diamond Jubilee mug. Diolch yn fawr iawn!
16th May: Summer is on the way (well, possibly) and the weather is getting warmer (again, possibly!). Please make sure that your child brings a water bottle to school so that they can continuously hydrate. All children have access to the water cooler throughout the day. Also, summer hats are a welcome addition when the sun is hot. Please make sure that these and any clothes are labelled with your child's name.
Our bags for life with Cody from Nursery & Reception's winning logo are still for sale. They are available for £3.00 from Mrs. Henderson.
Can we remind parents and visitors that our pupils safety is paramount and therefore could we make sure that everyone remains safe by driving sensibly and parking appropriately outside the school gates.
Cheeky Monkey Club Jubilee Party Tuesday 29th May: After school until 5:25pm. Cost £3.00 per ticket with a limited number available. See Kinga for details.
Jubilee Disco - Thursday 31st May: Celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee with our themed PTA Disco. Wear red, white and blue or dress up as a king or queen. Clothes/costumes can be worn all day. Cost £1.00 and includes entry and drink. Time 2:00-3:30pm. Snack shop will be available.
Llanharan Primary School Olympic Games (aka Sports Day) - Friday 1st June - starts 1:30pm. Soft drinks, ice lollies and snacks will be available to purchase. If you would like your child to purchase any of these items, please place money in a labelled envelope. A text will be sent with costs and items on offer on Thursday 31st May. All children will receive a commemorative medal and stickers will be awarded to those who come 1st, 2nd and 3rd. House colour shirts and PE kits to be worn (Red (Coch), White (Gwyn) & Green, Gwyrdd)).
From today, Foundation Phase and KS2 playgrounds will be changed. In the morning Yr1&2 can walk up the pathway up the drive to the playground outside their classroom and Years 3-6 will use the bottom playground outside their classroom doors (near the log-walk). These changes will allow our Foundation Phase staff to set up age appropriate learning activities in our fantastic outdoor environment. Also, it will minimise the number of times per day our youngest pupils have to use the steps. The morning routine for Nursery&Reception pupils will not change.
11th May: Our Nursery & Reception class held their first reading cafe today, where parents were invited in to watch Miss Rose reading a story with her class and then join in with craft activities linked in with that story. : 26th April: Our calendar page has been updated with dates for your diary. . 2nd April: Thirteen pupils from Year 4/5/6 have gone on a three day residential adventure trip to Abernant. Keep up to date with their exploits here.
31st March: We have started collecting Tesco's vouchers for schools and clubs to enable us to secure resources for our pupils. All donations are welcome. . 19th March: The whole school took part in skipping workshops today run by 'Skippy John' from 'Skipping 4 Life'. 'Skippy John' was the nickname given to him by Richard Hammond when he appeared on the first ever series of Total Wipeout. Children from each class from Nursery and Reception all the way up to Year 5/6 all had workshops and instruction in individual skills, partner skipping, double Dutch and long rope team games. The day culminated in a whole school display. . 18th March: Our wonderful 'Bag for Life' reusable bags have arrived in school. The winning design was drawn by Cody Lewis from Nursery and Reception. The bags will cost £3.00 each and are available from Mrs. Henderson at school reception.
A downloadable version of the newsletter . 13th March: We had a fantastic gardening club this evening with parental help. Many thanks for all of the donations of plants that we received from Mrs. McKechnie. . Our Year 4/5/6 class held a worm charming investigation. Read their class blog here . 10th March: Gardening club will be next THURSDAY 3:30-5:00 . 7th March: We had a fantastic gardening club after school today with potatoes, garlic and onions planted in our raised bed garden area, and 18 blackthorn trees planted into pots. We have a whole woodland of trees, thanks to the Woodlands Trust Jubilee woods scheme to plant. Until we decide where they are all going we are planning to plant them into pots for now. Any donations of medium to large size pots would be more than welcome! . 6th March: Today sees the start of our Foundation Phase Gymnastics Club, open for pupils from Miss Rose and Mrs. Killick's classes. The club will be run by Miss Rose, Miss Williams and Miss Hughes. Tomorrow (Wednesday) will see the start of gardening club, which replaces computer club. This is open to junior pupils and runs from 3:30-4:30. Pupils will need to bring old clothes and wellies or a change of shoes to change into after school. . 1st March: Well, what a fantastic Eisteddfod we had this afternoon. All the results were tweeted live via Twitter. Here are the full results all in one place!
Some photographs can be found at our TwitPic feed here
29th February: We held a competition in school for pupils to design a logo to represent recycling for our new reusable Jute bags. Congratulations to Cody from Miss Rose's Nursery & Reception class for his logo being chosen.
28th February: We are thrilled to announce that our sponsored bounce on the last day of term raised an amazing £864.00! This money will be used to help improve the learning experiences of our pupils. Many thanks to everyone who donated and collected money!
A downloadable version of the newsletter that was sent out today. . 10th February: Well, what a busy couple of days we've had! Yesterday was a jam packed, action filled day with Year 4/5/6 having a World War Two day, the RCT peripatetic music teachers putting on a show for all pupils in the school, a PTA disco followed by the Cheeky Monkey after school club party! Today saw the hosting of our 2nd annual sponsored bounce to raise money to allow the school to continue improving our learning environment. All pupils had the chance to bounce as many bounces as they could on a space hopper in two minutes. A great way to round off the end of our term - enjoy the half term holidays!
3rd February: Councillor Hopkins came to the school to present us with a £500 cheque as a contribution from the Community Council towards our successful fireworks event which we held last November. Presentation on TwitPic
Pupils of the week: KS1: Nursery & Reception: Alisha-May, Autumn & Leah, Dylan C & Denrard Year 1&2: Melissa, Farrah & Tilly, Keegan KS2: Year 3&4: Gracie, Caitlin & William, Tawfiq Year 5&6: Jordan Wh, Shani & Amy, Lauren
2nd February: We have been awarded the International School Intermediate Award. Well done everyone!
1st February: Our Year 4/5/6 class is currently undergoing some research via their Twitter feed @lps140club into what is the most popular Shakespeare play. Join in and add your vote!
8th January: We have launched a class Blog for Year 4/5/6. View the Blog HERE
5th January 2012: Welcome back and Happy New Year! We're all set for a busy and exciting new term. This year all classes are going to be trialling a newly developed curriculum to support our young learners in an age where ICT and crtical literacy skills will be of paramount importance. All national curriculum objectives and skills wil still be covered but in what will hopefully be a more engaging and exciting way.
Year 4/5/6 will be studying the 'Blitz'. This project has a history focus and teaches children abou the second World War including and understanding of the reasons for war, the impact on everyday lives of people including children and about significant individuals of the period. Children will also learn about the significance of the Swansea Blitz and the social and human impact of it. At the heart of this project children write narrative stories based on historical facts and develop additional skills in using flashback as a technique for telling stories.
Year 3/4 class will be undertaking the topic Global Gourmet. This project has a food design and technology focus and teaches children about different food types from around the world, fair trade and the importance of eating a healthy diet for well being. At the heart of this project children will learn to write formal and informal letters and develop additional skills in writing to advertise and inform.
Year 1/2 will be looking at Superheroes. The project has an ICT focus and teaches children how to gather information from a range of sources and use a range of packages to draw, paint, animate and record sounds. At the heart of this project, children will write narrative and fantasy stories using a comic and soryboard format and develop additional skills in the use of speech marks and captions. On Friday 13th January, they will be holding a superhero dressing up day. Children may dress up as a superhero or bring a superhero toy to school.
Nursery and Reception will be exploring mini beasts through the topic Wriggle and Crawl. This project has a sciece focus and teaches children about mini beasts and their habitats. At the heart of this project children will learn how to write poems using rhyme and learn additional skills in labelling and captions.
The Calendar page has dates for the diary for this forthcoming term.
24th December: Merry Christmas from everyone at Llanharan Primary School!!!
14th December: So, there goes another year's Christmas Concerts. The Juniors kicked proceedings of on Monday afternoon with a rip-roaring production with a scene stealing vicar. The Infants brought a tear to many an eye with their C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S Spells Christmas and particularly their beautiful rendition of 'Three Tenor Shepherds'. The show on this occasion was stolen by a dancing, guitar playing red dog and an enthusiastic dancing Santa! Tuesday saw the Infants perform in the afternoon straight after returning from their trip to watch Cinderella in Porthcawl while the Juniors had the evening showing. There are two particular members of staff who are quite sad to let go of their rabbit costumes. Tonight saw the pupils rocking out in the PTA Christmas disco while tomorrow will bring our visit for a Christmas performance at Church, Christmas Dinner and the Cheeky Monkey Club party after school.
8th December: Friday 9th December: we will hold our Concert dress rehearsal. It will start at 1:30pm and granddads and grandmothers are welcome to attend (free entry). Monday 12th December: Junior Concert 2:00pm Infant Concert 5:30pm. Infant pupils are to be brought to their classroom by 5:10pm. Nursery & Reception's gate will be open and Year 1/2 pupils are to open via the back door by their cloakroom. The main entrance doors for the concert will open at 5:15pm. Tuesday 13th December (AM): Nursery & Reception will have their trip to watch the Pantomime, Cinderella. A small bag of Haribos and a drink will be providded by the staff. Tuesday 13th December (PM): Infant Concert 2:00pm. Junior Concert 5:30pm. Junior pupils are to be brought to their classrooms by 5:10pm. Again, the main entrance doors for the concert will be opened at 5:15pm. Wednesday 14th December: Nursery-Year2 will walk to church to practice for our Carol concert. Later on at 3:30-4:30p,. FOLPS will have their Christmas Disco. Entrance is free but drinks and snacks can be bought during proceedings. Thursday 15th December: Carol Concert in Llanharan Church for pupils only (can infants please bring their costumes). 12:15 - Christmas Dinner. 3:30-5:25pm Cheeky Monkey Club Christmas Disco, (pre booked tickets only). Friday 16th December: Last day of term. Tuesday 3rd January: Pupils return to school.
As we are heading into winter we would like to keep you informed of our protocols when it comes to adverse weather. If we have unexpected snowfall and we have to close due to it becoming a health and safety risk to our pupils, the following procedures will take place: 1. A text will be sent before 8:30am 2. The message on the school answer machine will be changed. 3. The school WIKI will state the updated situation. 4. A tweet will be sent from @llanharanps to all of those who follow us on Twitter.
27th November: As you may have seen from the new application on the home page, Llanharan Primary School is now on Twitter. Follow the link on the home page or just follow @llanharanps on Twitter.
23rd November: Llanharan Primary School will be closed due to strike action by various unions on Wednesday 30th November.
15th November: We were thrilled to receive our Green Leaf plaque from the Rhondda Cynon Taff Healthy Schools Scheme at an assembly this morning. Year 6 School Council members were only too happy to receive the award.
10th November: We are delighted to announce that we now have a twin school in Tanzania, Africa. Mr. Moses Achimpota the headteacher of Solomon Mahlangu Primary School is excited to link up with us and help coordinate projects in the lead up to the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The 1, 410 pupils speak English and Swahili and are located near the town of Morogoro.
6th November: Last night, we held our first ever Firework display as part of our Bonfire Night celebrations. An estimated crowd of 700+ people came to the Welfare Field to enjoy the rides, food, stalls and belly dancer before gathering round to watch a 25 minute long display of fireworks of all kind culminating in a blazing 'good night' set piece. It was a fantastic evening and many thanks to the staff who attended and helped out on the gates and at stalls and especially those who performed the firework display. Many thanks to FoLPS for their planning and hard work leading up to and throughout the event.
21st October: We had a fantastic Cheeky Monkey Halloween Party last night (20th October) with more children than expected attending. Due to this overwhelming success and the unexpected numbers in attendance, we feel that it is necessary that we are going to have to sell tickets for our forthcoming Christmas party, to be held on 15th December (3:30-5:25pm £3.00 a ticket). Tickets will be on sale from November 1st to 13th December on a first come first served basis. See Kinga for details.
14th October: Our Year 6's attended the Police's Community football 6-a-side tournament held at Brynna Fields. The rules stipulated squads of 8. and due to one person being absent we only had 8 Year 6's! We were competing against much larger schools. All pupils thoroughly enjoyed themselves, especially in their first game where they beat Brynna B 1-0 thanks to a goal from star player Lauren. We lost our three other games and finished 4th out of 5 in our pool.
22nd September: Year 4/5/6 went to the National Botanical Garden of Wales on Tuesday 20th September to harvest the vegetables that were planted by the class in the early summer. We returned with a bounty of veg which was supplemented by some vegetables picked by the on duty gardener in the double walled gardens.
21st September: As you may have noticed, our front page is now adorned with the official Education logo for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games to celebrate our school being accepted as a member of the Get Set Network. As a reward for this we have been given permission to use the logo on our school wiki.
Some upcoming dates: Thursday 22nd September: 3:30-4:30 Junior Rugby Club (Every Thursday unless notified) Friday 23rd September: INSET (school closed for pupils) Monday 26th September: 3:30-5:00 - Literacy Open Evening - all welcome! Tuesday 27th September: 3:30-5:00 - Computer club - Junior pupils and parents welcome. We are hoping to start a school newspaper! Thursday 29th September: Recycling and Healthy Eating show for all pupils Wednesday 5th October: Colorfoto - Individual school photographs Friday 14th October - Year 5/6 rugby event - details to follow. Friday 14th October-Thursday 18th October: No Cheeky Monkey Club. Wednesday 19th October: Harvest festival. Thursday 20th October: Cheeky Monkeys Halloween Party 3:30-5:20 - £3.00 Friday 21st October: Clothes/costume recycling. Come along and sell clothes and costumes that no longer fit. Monday 24th-Friday 29th October: Half term Monday 31st October: INSET (School closed for pupils) Friday 16th December: Last day in school for pupils.
7th September: Welcome back to the new academic year. The first phase of our renovations were successfully completed during the summer holidays. We are now the proud owners of new toilet facilities, new tables, chairs and a reorganised school! We now have a Foundation Phase Unit for our pupils with new role play equipment, small world diggers, dumper trucks, models and toys. The reorganisation will not affect playtimes or the start of the day routine but our after school routine will change. Full time Nursery/Reception pupils are to be taken to the Nursery/Reception gate in the morning from 9:05-9:15am. Nursery pupils can be collected from the gate at 3:15pm. Reception pupils will be walked down the drive at 3:30pm by their class teacher. Year 1/2 pupils are to be taken to the infant playground (log-walk) from 9:05-9:15am. They will then be walked down the drive at 3:30pm by their class teacher. In the morning Year 3-6 can use their Junior playground as usual from 9:05-9:15am. At the end of the school day they will walk to the front of the school building to the red line outside Mrs. Price's office with their class teacher.
A big thank you to all the parents who responded to the questionnaire last term. 64.7% of parents stated that they would be interested in an after school computer club. Starting on Tuesday 20th September (dependent on availability) Mr. Roberts will be running a weekly computer club from 3:30-4:30pm for Year 2-6 pupils. Although only 44.1% expressed an interest in a Nursery-Year 2 reading club we are still going ahead with a trial club on Tuesday afternoons from 2:30-3:30pm for both parents/grandparents and pupils to read, play book games and have fun with Miss Williams. BEAR club (Be Enthusiastic About Reading) will begin on Tuesday 20th September. 76.5% of parents expressed an interest in evening parent meetings. Alongside our usual afternoon sessions, Monday 7th November will be available for parents to meet with staff by appointment. More details will follow in October. 85.3% of parents expressed an interest in discovering our approach to literacy and numeracy. As a result we are planning our first literacy coffee afternoon on Monday 26th September where you can visit our libraries, learn about Catch Up, ALK, Cumbrian Reading Intervention and how we teach reading in our school. Clothes/Costume recycling was also popular with an 82.4% interest. Our first recycling after school event will be held on Friday 21st October 3:30-5:00pm so get any outgrown Halloween, Christmas costumes or any other unwanted clothes ready for this sale. There will be no charge for pre-booked tables. Following a positive response from 88.2% of parents, a salad cart is now available on Monday to Thursday for all pupils who take a school dinner option. 70.5% of parents requested a First Aid Club. Mrs. Hobrow will be running this club for Year 4,5,6 pupils on Thursday evenings beginning on 22/09/11 from 3:30-4:30pm.
We are hoping to offer the opportunity of hosting Zumba for children on Mondays from 3:30-4:20pm to Year 2-6 pupils at a cost of £2.00. If anyone is interested please let the school know ASAP.
FoLPS are arranging a psychic evening on Thursday 8th September at 7:30pm at the High Corner. there are still some tickets available so if you are interested please contact Sara Lewis on 07412382745.
If you have moved house or changed mobile numbers during the holidays could you please contact us with details in order that we may update our records.
4th September: Mr. Roberts and Mr. Llewelyn have been in school over the summer holidays attending to the raised beds in our new garden area. The hard work has paid off as the veg has grown really well, including the picking of one turnip!
14th July: Details for the remaining events for this term: Friday 15th July: Year 6 Leavers Assembly for parents at 2:00pm Camping event Monday 18th July: Infant Disco - 2:30-3:30pm (3:15 for nursery) Cheeky Monkeys end of term party - £3.50 - 3:30-5:30 Tuesday 19th July: Year 6 pupils cocktail reception - 4:30 Year 6 Limo Ride - 5:00-5:30 Junior children (excluding Year 6) to arrive at 5:15pm Junior's amazing 'X-Factor' Disco - 5:30-7:00pm (FREE ENTRY)
12th July: Year 4/5/6 went to the National Botanic gardens of Wales today to plant their seedlings into our allotment. We feel very fortunate and privileged as a school to once again have an allotment at the Gardens as this year we are one of only two schools in the whole of Wales who has one at the Gardens. We have planted a variety of crops such as sweetcorn, runner beans, beetroot, onions, carrots etc... and will go to pick them at harvest time. If you plan to visit the National Botanic Gardens of Wales during the Summer holidays, please be sure to head to the double-walled garden and visit our plot in the school gardens area.
11th July: Mrs. Price, Mr. Roberts and two pupils attended the Heritage School Awards 2011 which were held at Caerphilly Castle. We were invited to attend to receive an award to recognise our school's work on the coal mining history of Llanharan. Two presentation sessions were held in the Great Hall, we were scheduled for the second session. In the interlude between arriving and attending the ceremony, the pupils and staff were entertained by a Knight, in full armour who gave the pupils the opportunity to try on some of his armour and gave a demonstration on the art of sword fighting. We then entered the Great Hall to watch the ceremony and waited patiently as award after award was handed out. It was then our turn as we were awarded £200 for our project.
1st July: P.C. Daniels came to hold a special assembly today to celebrate the Year 6 Pupils who have been working on the SAFE project. All pupils were awarded with certificates and T-Shirts.
The plastic bottle greenhouse has entered its next phase of development as Mr. Roberts, Mr. Llewelyn and the year 4,5,6 children put together the frame for the roof. All that is left now is the plastic sheeting and the door and our plastic greenhouse is complete!
24th June: We checked the forecasts, crossed our fingers and went for it! At the second attempt, we decided to hold our sports day today. We started at 1:30pm on the field and the weather held off for us right up until the end of the afternoon. We had events ranging from sprints, obstacle races, relays, standing jump, javelin, marathon and the tug of war. We even had time for the staff Space Hopper race between Mr. Roberts and our three ITT Student Teachers from Swansea Metropolitan University, Mr. Arthur, Miss Grant and Mr. Jones. After close competition all afternoon, the house that triumphed this year was Ty Coch - Red House. Congratulations to all involved.
14th June: The Plastic Bottle Greenhouse is up! Year 4/5/6 along with Mr. Roberts and Mr. Llewelyn finally finished off stapling the bottles and 6ft bamboo poles to the frames this morning. They then started to attach all four sides together. All that is needed now is to make a door and roof and our greenhouse is done!!!
8th June: We had Playforce in today to put together and make our new garden and pond area in our grounds. We have had four raised beds, a covered raised pond, a covered benched area, a water spiral and a mini-beast magnifying glass station. It looks amazing!!!
6th June: Here are some dates for the diary for our last half term: Wednesday 8th June - KS2 Visit to London We will be leaving school at 7:45am for our journey to The Globe Theatre and Tate Modern. Please bring a morning snack, packed lunch and a snack to eat before we leave London. Also please provide non-fizzy drinks for the day. No pocket money is required. Estimated time of return is 7:45pm dependent on traffic. Wednesday 15th June: Year 6 begin their 'Safe' Project at school with PC Johnathan and PC Louise. Tuesday 21st June: Isit Theatre Company visit our school to perform a PSE show for Junior pupils. Wednesday 22nd June: South Wales fire service to run workshops with Year 2 and Year 5 during the morning session. Friday 24th June: Sports Day (weather permitting) starting at 1:30pm. Wednesday 28th June: Year 6 'Y Pant' taster day. Friday 1st July: PC Louise 'Keeping Safe' workshop with Nursery/Reception pupils. Wednesday 6th July: Governers Reporting to Parents evening. 6:00pm in hall, all parents welcome. Wednesday 6th & 7th July: Year 6 Pencoed Comprehensive 'Taster' days. Wednesday 13th July & Thursday 14th July: Year 6 cycling profficiency lessons. Helmets and bicycles to be brought into school for this practical course. Friday 15th July: Pupils and Parents Camping night. See below for more details. Tuesday 19th July: End of Term Disco - 2.15-3.15 Nursery & Infants. 4:30-5:00 - Year 6 Leavers cocktails and canapes. 5:00-5:30 - Year 6 Limo ride (See Sara Lewis of the PTA for details). 5:30-6:30 - Disco for all Juniors. Friday 15th July - Camping event: This year, FOLPS will be holding the very first camping evening on our school field. From 5:30pm you will be able to pitch your tent and join us for an outdoor disco, quiz, treasure hunt and bouncy castle. There will be food stalls to purchase snacks, a BBQ, ice lollies and soft drinks. The cost is £5.00 per tent for a maximum of 5 persons. Extra campers are £1.00 per person. There needs to be an adult (over 18 years) per tent to take responsibility for the accompanying children. The £5.00 includes your tent, 4 free bouncy castle 'rides' per child, free disco and free children's treasure hunt. Camper vans or caravans are welcome but will need to be pitched near the Junior playground. Campervan/caravan cost is £10.00 for a maximum of 5 people, one being over 18. If you would like to join us for the evening until 9:30pm you can purchase and evening pass at £1.00 per person.
27th May: Mr. Roberts' class visited Ynysyngharad Park in Pontypridd today to take part in the 'Love Where You Live' event. They had a thoroughly enjoyable time meeting Daleks, the TARDIS, trying out British Transport Police riot gear and equipment, running obstacle courses, holding owls, taking part in a 3m tall Dalek recycling World Record attempt, playing football (Mr. Arthur's team beat Mr. Roberts' team 3-2, though, we all know the disallowed goal for Mr. Roberts' team counted...) and many other cool things!
26th May: Due to the large amount of rain that has fallen today and the last few days we have had to take the decision to cancel sports day tomorrow (27th May). This decision was taken due to potential safety risks that arise due to the wet field. Our provisional new date for our sports day is Friday 24th June. Due to sports day being cancelled, we are now asking for Mr. Roberts class to wear school uniform for tomorrow's 'Love Where You Live' trip to Ynsyngharad Park in Pontypridd. We would like the children to wear rain coats and sensible footwear.
25th May: (Newsletter) * Thank you very much for your support in collecting both Sainsbury and TESCO vouchers this year. We have collected enough vouchers to purchase two HD Flip Cams, a data recorder, a dark den, recordable speech bubbles and a collection of sport equipments for PE sessions. * Renovations are continuing at school and this term has seen the development of the Nursery/Reception literacy room. This space has been totally transformed with nursery rhyme and storybook character murals, new bookcases, cupboards, a new table and chairs, puppet theatre and £3,000 of new books are on order! * Also, new desks and ergonomically designed chairs are in three out of the four classes. Year 3/4 are due to be renovated before the Summer holidays * Mr. Roberts class has been invited to the 'Love Where You Live' event at Ynysyngharad Park in Pontypridd on the morning of Friday 27th May. The transport and entrance costs have been funded by the local authority but a packed lunch will be required. Pupils will return between 1:30-2:00pm, in time hopefuly to complete their sports day events. The children are being asked to wear their sports day clothes (tracksuit bottoms not shorts) in the morning so that they can go straight up to the field as soon as they arrive back in school rather than wasting any time in getting changed. * Sports Day, weather permitting, will take place on Friday 27th May from 1:30pm onwards. If the field is too wet and poses a health and safety risk we will inform parents by 9:00am on Friday. Keep checking the website and school information for a new date if the event has to be cancelled. * We are very pleased to announce that we have achieved our first Healthy Schools Green Leaf. We were assessed on the 18th May and we were highly commended for the work initiated at school. * Half Term holidays - Monday 30th-Friday 3rd June - Return to school on Monday 6th June Last day of Term - Wednesday 20th July. * Miss Gill Webb, our catch up teacher and support assistant sadly lost her battle against cancer last Wednesday. We will be collecting donations for Velindre Hospital in her memory this week. If any parent would like to make a donation please see Mrs. Henderson. Miss Webb will be greatly missed and our thoughts are with her family, especially her sister, Mrs. Hopkins.
11th May: There has been much excitement this opening fortnight of the Summer Term as we have seen many changes to our school. Firstly Mr. Roberts' class have planted 12 fruit trees (a range of apple, pear, plum and cherry) at the front of the school grounds. Next both Year 4/5/6 and 1/2 took delivery of new tables and chairs for their classroom. After a lot of hard (and at times confusing) work, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Arthur and Mr. Llewelyn put them together and set them out in the classrooms. They look fantastic! Thirdly, the creative wizards from Brighter Ideas have been in to transfer the Nursery & Reception group-work room into an amazing woodlands and fiarytale themed Literacy Room. Finally, Year 4/5/6 have, at last, started to make the plastic bottle greenhouse. Yes! It is coming!!!
15th April: After yesterday's Easter Bonnet 'Catwalk', we today held our Royal Wedding Street Party and Treasure Hunt. All of our children (and staff) came dressed as princesses, princes, wedding guests and one waiter... We started the afternoon off by splitting the school into small teams comprised of children from all four classes working together. They then had a list of 15 Royal Wedding themes questions with the knowledge that somewhere around the school grounds, Mr. Roberts and Mr. Arthur had hidden cards with the answers on. They then had to match their discovered answer to a question. We then moved onto our street party with a long table being errected outside the fron of the school with plates and plates of party food. Much fun was had, many smiles were on display and it all capped a wonderful way to end the term.
11th April: Some dates for the diary! Thursday 14th April - AM Pupils visiting Llanharan Church for an Easter Service. PM - Easter Bonnet Parade at 2:00pm in the school hall. All are welcome, complimentary tickets are available from Mrs. Henderson. Friday 15th April - PM Royal Wedding Street Party - pupils to come dressed as a prince, princess or a wedding guest. Wear your tiaras, crowns or Easter Bonnets. Please can you bring a packet of biscuits, pre-packed cakes, fruit, crisps, sausage rolls etc... to share at our party. This is also the last day of term! Tuesday 3rd May - Children return to school Tuesday 10th May - Class photos Monday 30th May - Friday 3rd June - Whitsun Half Term Holidays Wednesday 20th July - Last school day for children!
We are delighted to welcome three teachers, Mr. Jones, Mr, Arthur and Miss Grant who will be joining us for a period of 8 weeks in Nursery/Reception, Year 1/2 and Year 4/5/6 to gain further teaching experience. We would also like to welcome Mr. Stephens who will be covering PPA sessions. Mr. Stephens will also be expertly playing the piano for the Easter Bonnet Parade.
9th April: Our thirteen intrepid explorers have returned from their adventures at Manor Adventure in Abernant. to read about their exploits click here.
18th March: We are pleased to announce that due to our messy hair day today we have raided £109.00 for Comic Relief. Da iawn pawb!
16th March: The last installment of Year 4/5/6's 2011 Six Nations Podcast has been added to the Podcast page here. These podcasts have been great fun to make for both the pupils and Mr. Roberts. We hope you've enjoyed listening to them and we are now looking at new ways of continuing the podcast series.
10th March: Our Year 5&6 class have recenty been fortunate to receive a fantastic role play feature to enhance their learning environment. 'Brighter Ideas', the design company who did such a fantastic job with our Infant's 'Under the Sea' library have been busy working away at designing, making and installing a science role play area under the theme 'Frankestein's Castle Laboratory'. This area can be used as an enhanced learning area for science but can also be adapted for literacy activities such as Macbeth's Castle etc...
8th March: We are once more starting to collect TESCO vouchers available every time you spend £10 at a TESCO store ore garage. These vouchers are an invaluable source for helping our school obtain ICT resources to help enhance the education of our pupils. We would ask that you once again encourage friends, family and neighbours to collect vouchers on our school's behalf to ensure that we can try to reach as high a total as possible. This year's TESCO vouchers are white and these will be the only type of vouchers we will be able to colect.
1st March - Dydd Gwyl Dewi Sant! We held our annual St.David's Day Eisteddfod this afternoon in our school hall, where our pupils performed in choirs, duets and took part in country dancing in front of an audience of parents. Certificates were awarded to pupils for competitions in handwriting and art which had been completed at home or in school in the period leading up to St. David's Day. These points were added to the points awarded to the houses for the age group choirs, duets and contry dancing. The competition was close between the three houses with Ty Gwyrdd coming third with 110 points, Ty Glas coming second with 134 points and this year's winners Ty Coch taking the trophy with 164 points. Full results can be found by opening the following File:
8th February: Comic Relief Red Noses will be available at the cost of £1.00 from Mrs. Henderson's office. : 13th January: Due to unforseen circumstances, the planned INSET Day for Friday 28th January has been brought forward to Friday 21st January. Children should not attend school on this day. Apologies for any inconvenience that this causes.
17th December: Due to the extreme weather conditions, we have had to take the decision to close the school today. The pupils will return to school on Wendesday 5th January. : 1st December: The 7th and 8th of December sees the arrival of this year's Christmas Concerts. Tickets are still available at £1.00 for all dates. Tuesday 7th has the Junior Performance at 2:00pm and the Infants at 5:30pm. Wednesday 8th has the Infants at 2:00pm and the Juniors at 5:30pm. We will also be holding a raffle at each performance with choloclate hampers and other goodies as prizes. All proceeds from ticket sales will go to funding ride-on toys for our infant classes and updating Junior reading areas (more exciting renovations are planned for 2011!). For the evening performances we are asking or pupils to be brought to their classes no earlier than 5:00pm, doors for the concert will also open at the same time. Both concerts are approximately 1 hour long andd children are to be collected from class teachers. If you make arrangements for another person to collect your child, parents must inform the school accordingly. Please note that there will be no after school activity clubs on both evenings. : We are trialling the curriculum based online Mathematics and Literacy homework programme in our Key Stage 2 (Junior) classes from January 2011. All pupils will be given a username and password to access differentiated homework online. Each week Mr. Roberts and Mrs. Hobrow will be uploading and choosing activities to support their class teaching specifically for your child. Your child will be able to complete the homework activites within the given week. On this homework website there are also video presentations so that pupils can 'see and hear' concepts as a reminder of the teaching and learning carried out in class. Pupils will receive automated and instant evaluations of their activities. Also, extra homework will be set if we have any school closure days (e.g. cases of snow). Passwords and more information will be sent out in January 2011. There is an attached slip with the paper form of today's letter for parents to fill in to inform the school of the state of internet access that the pupils are able to obtain to let us know of those who would possibly need paper forms of the same homework. : 25th November: Our procedures for the school under extreme weather such as the snowy conditions much of the UK has experienced recently is as follows. We will only close school as a last resort and every effort will be made to keep the school open for as long as possible. However, on occasions, due to health and safety concerns we may need to close. If the school is to be closed from the beginning of the school day a text message will be sent, the school answering machine will be updated and a message will appear here on our wiki. If we need to close the school during the day you will be informed by text (it is important that you keep the school updated with any change of contact numbers.) If you work a distance from the school, please make arrangements with a fried or member of the family to be on hand to collect your child. If you make arrangements for another person to collect your child, parents must inform the school accordingly. : On Friday 3rd December, Janice Gregory AM will be opening our renovated school library. If any parents would like to have a look at the newly improved library you are invited to have a tour from 2:30pm on the same day. : 11th November: Llanharan Primary School has been awarded a Big Lottery Fund award for a wildlife project. The story was taken up by the Pontypridd Observer and the story can be read by clicking on the following internet link which will go open up in a new window. Llanharan Primary School gets Big Lottery Fund for wildlife project. : 21st October: Cheeky Monkey Club held their Halloween Party after school today. There was food, music, arts and craft activities, games and some special activities such as the 'bobbing for apples' (a lot harder than it looked) and a pinata which was finally broken by David from Year 5. The fancy dress awards went as follows; 3rd. Iestyn Morris, 2nd. Courtney O'Neill and 1st. Cameron Armstrong.
11th October 2010: We are delighted to announce that we have been successful in a National Lottery bid to further develop our outdoor environment. We will be creating a herb garden, seating area and allotment area for our pupils to enjoy throughout the day.
In the half term leading up to Christmas we will be totally updating our library.group work room. We're planning themed murals, new bookcases, carpet and new furniture. Our school council are currently coordinating the "redevelopment" and the whole school will be involved in designing the wall covering mural. Invitations will be sent out to parents/guardians to come and have a look at the re-styled library at Christmas.
We would like to say a big thank you to the PTA (FoLPS) and the Community Shop for their very kind donations. As a result of their hard work and generosity we can go ahead with our school's 30th Anniversary Celebration Mural. The children, and members of the community, will be designing and making a ceramic mural to be placed on the school wall nearest the driveway. This will certainly brighten up the front of our school! The project will begin in November and be completed by Easter 2011. In the Summer Term the school will be hosting its official 30th Anniversary Celebrations.
Many thanks to all the children who donated tins etc... for our harvest collection. Food Bank, the receiving charity asked me to convey their appreciation.
On Friday 22nd October the PTA will be hosting a Halloween Disco for all pupils. The cost to attend the disco is £1 and this includes a drink and crisps. The disco times will be; Mrs. Padgett & Mrs. Killick's class (Infants) = 3:15-4:15 pm. Mrs. Hobrow & Mr. Roberts class = 4:30-5:30 pm. If any pupils would like to wear Halloween costumes to school on Friday 22nd October we ask if they could bring a chocolate donation for our school Chocolate Hampers e.g. bar of chocolates (minstrels, buttons) or even a small box of chocolates.
We will be holding choir practice on a Wednesday evening from 3:30-4:30 pm. The choir will be led by Miss Johns our new (and musically talented) member of staff who is currently covering PPA & Language Support. The choir is open to pupils from Year 2-6. Any pupils who attend need to be collected from the school lobby at 4:30 pm. There is no cost for this club and the choir will begin on Wednesday 3rd November. If your child would like to attend the choir please complete the form attached to the paper form of this newsletter by Friday 15th October.
We currently have spaces for children wishing to take violin lessons. In the Circumstances we are now offering the opportunity for Year 2 children to take part if they are interested. Please complete the form attached to the paper form of this newsletter if you wish your child to be considered.
21st September 2010 Year 4/5/6 visited Big Pit in Blaenavon today as part of their studies in their topic 'Coal - Black Gold'. We started off the trip with a visit to old Maggie Morgan in her home who talked us through her life as a door-girl in the mines. Her story of her memories had the whole group enthralled. We then moved to the underground trip. The whole group, adults included, got 'booted and suited' with miner helmets, lamps and battery belts. After just a few minutes of wearing the kit, the children expressed how heavy and uncomfortable they were. Our guide, Andrew 'Bedrock' led us into the cage and down 90 feet underground. We then walked through the mines, with our guide stopping us every time something of interest appeared including the pit pony stables and the big heavy ventilation doors. It was at these doors that we were all asked to turn off our lamps to experience 'pitch dark'. A return to the surface and a visit to see the canaries rounded off an enjoyable trip.
I have moved the news from the previous two years into the archive section as the page was becoming very large!
Our Interactive QR Code trail of Llanharan won £700 from the People's Collection Wales today in the Welsh Heritage School's Initiative Awards at the Millennium Stadium.
Here is our QR Code map.
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4th March:
We received a visit from students from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama today who put on a whole school performance of their school opera, Dr Ferret and his Bad Medicine. Here's a blog post about it: CLICK HERE
1st March:
We held our St David's Day Eisteddfod this afternoon, which was covered live again by our school Twitter account @llanharanps and our Year 5/6 account @lps140club. Full results can be found below. Llongyfarchiadau Ty Gwyn! Here's a blog about it: CLICK HERE
22nd February:
Cruiser the reading dog came into school today to listen to some stories read by our pupils. Many thanks to the Bark and Read foundation for their support in this exciting initiative.
6th February:
Newsletter
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31st January:
South Wales Police came into school today to help with a triple murder investigation!
CLICK HERE
24th January:
School will be open today. Many thanks to the help from some parents who have been working on clearing the hill up to school.
23rd January:
UPDATE: Due to the ongoing poor conditions at school and the condition of the hill, we again have to close today. Sorry for any inconvenience this causes.
Mrs Price: "I hope to open the school today but need to run a risk assessment first. I will text parents to confirm."
22nd January:
Due to the icy conditions and presently falling snow, school will be closed today.
20th January:
School will be open as usual tomorrow. If there is any change in the weather overnight then we will reassess in the morning.
18th January:
Llanharan Primary School is closed today due to the adverse weather conditions we are currently experiencing.
10th January 2013:
We would like to welcome Mr. Griffiths, our new Deputy Head to Llanharan Primary School. He has settled into his new role as Deputy and as our Year 1/2 teacher.
25th December:
Merry Christmas everyone!
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10th December:
5th December:
As you may have noticed, our fantastic new logo can now be seen on the home page.
29th November:
27th November:
26th November:
22nd November:
6th November:
Two newsletters that were handed out to pupils this evening.
26th October:
We have all been watching with anticipation the great work that the ladies from Bethesda Art have been doing in putting our mural up on the front of the school. It looks amazing and has pieces of artwork that our pupils have been working on with the artist's support. Many thanks to them. Here we have a photograph credited to one of our parents, Mr. Case from our Twitter feed @llanharanps
9th October:
School will be closed today until further notice due to a gas leak. Apologies for any inconvenience.
26th September:
As a lot of you may have already noticed, we have a fantastic new sign at the front of our school.
7th September:
We held our school council elections today and our new members for this year are as follows:
Year 6:Shani, Chloe, Jordan Watts and Jordan White
Year 5: Cerys and Tawfiq
Year 4: Malea and Ellis
Year 3: Cassie and Ryan
Year 2: Eliza and Farrah
Year 1: Amie-Lee and Cody
Reception: Ellie-Ann and Nikolai
Congratulations to all!
4th September 2012:
Welcome back to a new year. We have two newsletters which went home today but can also be downloaded from here.
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16th July:
Staffing for next academic year:
Nursery/Reception - Mrs. Killick with Mrs. Hopkins and Miss Hughes
Year 1/2 - Mr. Arthur with Mrs Dunford
Year 3/4 - Mrs. Hobrow
Year 5/6 - Mr. Roberts
Mrs. Brooks will be covering PPA sessions and staff training courses and we warmly welcome her to our team.
Miss Williams will be leading language support in her role as a full time Additional Learning Needs Coordinator.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank Miss Rose and wish her every success in her new teaching post.
Monday 3rd September - INSET
Pupils will return to school on Tueday 6th September
Thursday 6th September - INSET Regional Sports Wales will be hosting a Spy/Detective club on this day for parents/guardians who will require care provision on this date. The cost for 9:00am to 3:30pm being £15.00 and the session from 8:00am to 5:00pm being £22.00. Packed lunches will be required.
10th July:
We received a £200 prize at the Welsh Heritage Schools Initiative today at a ceremony held at the Park & Dare theatre in Treorchy. The prize was awarded for a World War Two project produced by Year 4/5/6.
9th July:
Mr Roberts was chosen as one of 11 teachers to share good practice in Literacy today at a celebration of the ESIS Writing Project.
2nd July:
Cardiff City Summer School poster:
25th June:
We celebrated London 2012 World Sports Day in school today by allowing all pupils a chance to experience playing three Paralympic sports; Goal-ball, Sitting volley-ball and Boccia. Everyone had great fun but also learned a lot about Paralympic sports.
Our Year 4/5/6 class had their 4th Stats in Sound day today at the National Botanical Gardens of Wales. Their Blog post can be read HERE. Here's a slideshow of the photos Mr. Roberts took on his travels with his group.
18th June:
We've had a busy day here in school today! The day started with our Year 1/2 Class Assembly on the Olympics with a packed hall full of parents and grand-parents. Community Music Wales were back to work with our Year 4/5/6 class on Day 3 of their Stats in Sound project; a blog of their activities can be found HERE. The Muni Arts Centre came to work on a song-writing project with our Year 5's where they began the process of writing a song about the environment.
17th June:
A blog for Day 2 of our Year 4/5/6 Stats in Sound project with Community Music Wales including a report of their trip to G24i HERE
12th June:
Our Year 4/5/6 class had their first session working with Community Music Wales on their 'Stats in Sound' project. Here are two links to read about what they have been doing:
Community Wales - Stats in Sound, Llanharan Primary School - HERE
Year 4/5/6 Class Blog - Stats in Sound Day 1 - HERE
11th June:
We took a team of 11 pupils from Years 3-6 to Haile Park in Cardiff today to take part in the Wales Rugby League and Introsport Primary Rugby League Cup. Before the competition started we had a training session from John from Wales Ruby League and had a chat with Lee, who came to teach us a few weeks back in school. We then played Hawthorn Primary in a warm-up game, coming away victorious by three tries to one, with tries coming from Charlie, Jordan and Jack. We moved into the final where we again played Hawthorn and were unfortunate to suffer deafeat with an exact reverse of the score, 2-3. Tries from David and Lauren saw the game finish 2-2 which pushed us into Extra time. The competition was close with near misses from both side and we moved into sudden death! This resulted in each team having to lose a player after a set number of time and would continue until a try was scored. The first player penalyt came in and both teams went down to 6 a-side. We were pushing close to the line with Jordan just coming short by mere milimetres when a pass was thrown and an interception made, the opposition runner just evading Jack's despearate back-tracking chase to score the winning try. Everyone had great fun and enjoyed our day out playing in a tournament, which is unfamiliar territory for a lot of our members. Many thanks to the organisers for holding the event. Our 11 pupil team consisted of David, Lauren (Yr6), Jack, Jordan (Yr5), Ben, Cerys, Charlie, Maya, Sophie, Tawfiq (Yr4) & Dylan (Yr3).
We held our Llanharan Primary Olympics today. We woke to see mist and fine drizzle but there was never any doubt that our special day wouldn't go ahead. We were also privileged to be joined by two VIPs this year; 11 times Paralympic Gold medalist David Roberts CBE and London 2012 Olympic Torch bearer Melanie Stephenson. David was kind enough to bring along one of his Paralympic Golds and Melanie brought along the London 2012 Olympic Torch that she carried into Coopers Field in Cardiff to light the cauldron at the Torch Relay celebrations a week ago today.
We began proceedings with all of our pupils marching up onto the field in class order taking part in our parade of flags. The 26 flags represented the family links that our pupils have across the world. We then moved onto our opening ceremony with our 'Flame Dance' to the tune of Chariots of Fire. This flame dance featured Melanie and her Olympic Torch as she 'lit' one of our pupils to instigate the performance.
We then moved onto the competition, which was fierce, competitive and fun! Our events included; sprint, obstacle race, standing jump, discuss, infant marathon, junior marathon and the junior sprint relay. After an afternoon of tense competition the final house standings stood at:
3rd: Ty Gwyrdd
2nd: Ty Coch
1st: Ty Gwyn
The day ended with the presentation of the trophy and each pupil being awarded the special commemorative Llanharan Primary School 2012 Olympics medal. Congratulations to everyone involved, pupils, parents and staff. A selection of photos can be seen on our Twitter Feed HERE @llanharanps
25th May:
Our school has been selected as one of only two schools from Wales to be selected to work on a prestigious 'Stats in Sound' project with the National Botanical Gardens for Wales. Mr. Roberts' class has been chosen and details and permission slips are being sent home with the pupils today. A copy of the letter can be found below.
22nd May:
Our Juniors went to watch the Philharmonia Orchestra's Music Quest today at St. David's Hall. Visit our Year 5/6 blog HERE to read more and watch a video of some of the performance.
17th May:
Councillor Stephens visited the school today on behalf of the Community Council to give all of our pupils a special Queen's Diamond Jubilee mug. Diolch yn fawr iawn!
16th May:
Summer is on the way (well, possibly) and the weather is getting warmer (again, possibly!). Please make sure that your child brings a water bottle to school so that they can continuously hydrate. All children have access to the water cooler throughout the day. Also, summer hats are a welcome addition when the sun is hot. Please make sure that these and any clothes are labelled with your child's name.
Our bags for life with Cody from Nursery & Reception's winning logo are still for sale. They are available for £3.00 from Mrs. Henderson.
Can we remind parents and visitors that our pupils safety is paramount and therefore could we make sure that everyone remains safe by driving sensibly and parking appropriately outside the school gates.
Cheeky Monkey Club Jubilee Party Tuesday 29th May: After school until 5:25pm. Cost £3.00 per ticket with a limited number available. See Kinga for details.
Jubilee Disco - Thursday 31st May: Celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee with our themed PTA Disco. Wear red, white and blue or dress up as a king or queen. Clothes/costumes can be worn all day. Cost £1.00 and includes entry and drink. Time 2:00-3:30pm. Snack shop will be available.
Llanharan Primary School Olympic Games (aka Sports Day) - Friday 1st June - starts 1:30pm. Soft drinks, ice lollies and snacks will be available to purchase. If you would like your child to purchase any of these items, please place money in a labelled envelope. A text will be sent with costs and items on offer on Thursday 31st May. All children will receive a commemorative medal and stickers will be awarded to those who come 1st, 2nd and 3rd. House colour shirts and PE kits to be worn (Red (Coch), White (Gwyn) & Green, Gwyrdd)).
From today, Foundation Phase and KS2 playgrounds will be changed. In the morning Yr1&2 can walk up the pathway up the drive to the playground outside their classroom and Years 3-6 will use the bottom playground outside their classroom doors (near the log-walk). These changes will allow our Foundation Phase staff to set up age appropriate learning activities in our fantastic outdoor environment. Also, it will minimise the number of times per day our youngest pupils have to use the steps. The morning routine for Nursery&Reception pupils will not change.
11th May:
Our Nursery & Reception class held their first reading cafe today, where parents were invited in to watch Miss Rose reading a story with her class and then join in with craft activities linked in with that story.
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26th April:
Our calendar page has been updated with dates for your diary.
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2nd April:
Thirteen pupils from Year 4/5/6 have gone on a three day residential adventure trip to Abernant. Keep up to date with their exploits here.
31st March:
We have started collecting Tesco's vouchers for schools and clubs to enable us to secure resources for our pupils. All donations are welcome.
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19th March:
The whole school took part in skipping workshops today run by 'Skippy John' from 'Skipping 4 Life'. 'Skippy John' was the nickname given to him by Richard Hammond when he appeared on the first ever series of Total Wipeout. Children from each class from Nursery and Reception all the way up to Year 5/6 all had workshops and instruction in individual skills, partner skipping, double Dutch and long rope team games. The day culminated in a whole school display.
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18th March:
Our wonderful 'Bag for Life' reusable bags have arrived in school. The winning design was drawn by Cody Lewis from Nursery and Reception. The bags will cost £3.00 each and are available from Mrs. Henderson at school reception.
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16th March:
A downloadable version of the newsletter
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13th March:
We had a fantastic gardening club this evening with parental help. Many thanks for all of the donations of plants that we received from Mrs. McKechnie.
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Our Year 4/5/6 class held a worm charming investigation. Read their class blog here
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10th March:
Gardening club will be next THURSDAY 3:30-5:00
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7th March:
We had a fantastic gardening club after school today with potatoes, garlic and onions planted in our raised bed garden area, and 18 blackthorn trees planted into pots. We have a whole woodland of trees, thanks to the Woodlands Trust Jubilee woods scheme to plant. Until we decide where they are all going we are planning to plant them into pots for now. Any donations of medium to large size pots would be more than welcome!
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6th March:
Today sees the start of our Foundation Phase Gymnastics Club, open for pupils from Miss Rose and Mrs. Killick's classes. The club will be run by Miss Rose, Miss Williams and Miss Hughes. Tomorrow (Wednesday) will see the start of gardening club, which replaces computer club. This is open to junior pupils and runs from 3:30-4:30. Pupils will need to bring old clothes and wellies or a change of shoes to change into after school.
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1st March:
Well, what a fantastic Eisteddfod we had this afternoon. All the results were tweeted live via Twitter. Here are the full results all in one place!
Some photographs can be found at our TwitPic feed here
29th February:
We held a competition in school for pupils to design a logo to represent recycling for our new reusable Jute bags. Congratulations to Cody from Miss Rose's Nursery & Reception class for his logo being chosen.
28th February:
We are thrilled to announce that our sponsored bounce on the last day of term raised an amazing £864.00! This money will be used to help improve the learning experiences of our pupils. Many thanks to everyone who donated and collected money!
24th February:
21st February:
A downloadable version of the newsletter that was sent out today.
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10th February:
Well, what a busy couple of days we've had! Yesterday was a jam packed, action filled day with Year 4/5/6 having a World War Two day, the RCT peripatetic music teachers putting on a show for all pupils in the school, a PTA disco followed by the Cheeky Monkey after school club party! Today saw the hosting of our 2nd annual sponsored bounce to raise money to allow the school to continue improving our learning environment. All pupils had the chance to bounce as many bounces as they could on a space hopper in two minutes. A great way to round off the end of our term - enjoy the half term holidays!
3rd February:
Councillor Hopkins came to the school to present us with a £500 cheque as a contribution from the Community Council towards our successful fireworks event which we held last November. Presentation on TwitPic
Pupils of the week:
KS1:
Nursery & Reception: Alisha-May, Autumn & Leah, Dylan C & Denrard
Year 1&2: Melissa, Farrah & Tilly, Keegan
KS2:
Year 3&4: Gracie, Caitlin & William, Tawfiq
Year 5&6: Jordan Wh, Shani & Amy, Lauren
2nd February:
We have been awarded the International School Intermediate Award. Well done everyone!
1st February:
Our Year 4/5/6 class is currently undergoing some research via their Twitter feed @lps140club into what is the most popular Shakespeare play. Join in and add your vote!
8th January:
We have launched a class Blog for Year 4/5/6. View the Blog HERE
5th January 2012:
Welcome back and Happy New Year! We're all set for a busy and exciting new term. This year all classes are going to be trialling a newly developed curriculum to support our young learners in an age where ICT and crtical literacy skills will be of paramount importance. All national curriculum objectives and skills wil still be covered but in what will hopefully be a more engaging and exciting way.
Year 4/5/6 will be studying the 'Blitz'. This project has a history focus and teaches children abou the second World War including and understanding of the reasons for war, the impact on everyday lives of people including children and about significant individuals of the period. Children will also learn about the significance of the Swansea Blitz and the social and human impact of it. At the heart of this project children write narrative stories based on historical facts and develop additional skills in using flashback as a technique for telling stories.
Year 3/4 class will be undertaking the topic Global Gourmet. This project has a food design and technology focus and teaches children about different food types from around the world, fair trade and the importance of eating a healthy diet for well being. At the heart of this project children will learn to write formal and informal letters and develop additional skills in writing to advertise and inform.
Year 1/2 will be looking at Superheroes. The project has an ICT focus and teaches children how to gather information from a range of sources and use a range of packages to draw, paint, animate and record sounds. At the heart of this project, children will write narrative and fantasy stories using a comic and soryboard format and develop additional skills in the use of speech marks and captions. On Friday 13th January, they will be holding a superhero dressing up day. Children may dress up as a superhero or bring a superhero toy to school.
Nursery and Reception will be exploring mini beasts through the topic Wriggle and Crawl. This project has a sciece focus and teaches children about mini beasts and their habitats. At the heart of this project children will learn how to write poems using rhyme and learn additional skills in labelling and captions.
The Calendar page has dates for the diary for this forthcoming term.
24th December:
Merry Christmas from everyone at Llanharan Primary School!!!
14th December:
So, there goes another year's Christmas Concerts. The Juniors kicked proceedings of on Monday afternoon with a rip-roaring production with a scene stealing vicar. The Infants brought a tear to many an eye with their C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S Spells Christmas and particularly their beautiful rendition of 'Three Tenor Shepherds'. The show on this occasion was stolen by a dancing, guitar playing red dog and an enthusiastic dancing Santa! Tuesday saw the Infants perform in the afternoon straight after returning from their trip to watch Cinderella in Porthcawl while the Juniors had the evening showing. There are two particular members of staff who are quite sad to let go of their rabbit costumes. Tonight saw the pupils rocking out in the PTA Christmas disco while tomorrow will bring our visit for a Christmas performance at Church, Christmas Dinner and the Cheeky Monkey Club party after school.
8th December:
Friday 9th December: we will hold our Concert dress rehearsal. It will start at 1:30pm and granddads and grandmothers are welcome to attend (free entry). Monday 12th December: Junior Concert 2:00pm Infant Concert 5:30pm. Infant pupils are to be brought to their classroom by 5:10pm. Nursery & Reception's gate will be open and Year 1/2 pupils are to open via the back door by their cloakroom. The main entrance doors for the concert will open at 5:15pm.
Tuesday 13th December (AM): Nursery & Reception will have their trip to watch the Pantomime, Cinderella. A small bag of Haribos and a drink will be providded by the staff.
Tuesday 13th December (PM): Infant Concert 2:00pm. Junior Concert 5:30pm. Junior pupils are to be brought to their classrooms by 5:10pm. Again, the main entrance doors for the concert will be opened at 5:15pm.
Wednesday 14th December: Nursery-Year2 will walk to church to practice for our Carol concert. Later on at 3:30-4:30p,. FOLPS will have their Christmas Disco. Entrance is free but drinks and snacks can be bought during proceedings.
Thursday 15th December: Carol Concert in Llanharan Church for pupils only (can infants please bring their costumes). 12:15 - Christmas Dinner. 3:30-5:25pm Cheeky Monkey Club Christmas Disco, (pre booked tickets only).
Friday 16th December: Last day of term.
Tuesday 3rd January: Pupils return to school.
As we are heading into winter we would like to keep you informed of our protocols when it comes to adverse weather. If we have unexpected snowfall and we have to close due to it becoming a health and safety risk to our pupils, the following procedures will take place:
1. A text will be sent before 8:30am
2. The message on the school answer machine will be changed.
3. The school WIKI will state the updated situation.
4. A tweet will be sent from @llanharanps to all of those who follow us on Twitter.
27th November:
As you may have seen from the new application on the home page, Llanharan Primary School is now on Twitter. Follow the link on the home page or just follow @llanharanps on Twitter.
23rd November:
Llanharan Primary School will be closed due to strike action by various unions on Wednesday 30th November.
15th November:
We were thrilled to receive our Green Leaf plaque from the Rhondda Cynon Taff Healthy Schools Scheme at an assembly this morning. Year 6 School Council members were only too happy to receive the award.
10th November:
We are delighted to announce that we now have a twin school in Tanzania, Africa. Mr. Moses Achimpota the headteacher of Solomon Mahlangu Primary School is excited to link up with us and help coordinate projects in the lead up to the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The 1, 410 pupils speak English and Swahili and are located near the town of Morogoro.
6th November:
Last night, we held our first ever Firework display as part of our Bonfire Night celebrations. An estimated crowd of 700+ people came to the Welfare Field to enjoy the rides, food, stalls and belly dancer before gathering round to watch a 25 minute long display of fireworks of all kind culminating in a blazing 'good night' set piece. It was a fantastic evening and many thanks to the staff who attended and helped out on the gates and at stalls and especially those who performed the firework display. Many thanks to FoLPS for their planning and hard work leading up to and throughout the event.
21st October:
We had a fantastic Cheeky Monkey Halloween Party last night (20th October) with more children than expected attending. Due to this overwhelming success and the unexpected numbers in attendance, we feel that it is necessary that we are going to have to sell tickets for our forthcoming Christmas party, to be held on 15th December (3:30-5:25pm £3.00 a ticket). Tickets will be on sale from November 1st to 13th December on a first come first served basis. See Kinga for details.
14th October:
Our Year 6's attended the Police's Community football 6-a-side tournament held at Brynna Fields. The rules stipulated squads of 8. and due to one person being absent we only had 8 Year 6's! We were competing against much larger schools. All pupils thoroughly enjoyed themselves, especially in their first game where they beat Brynna B 1-0 thanks to a goal from star player Lauren. We lost our three other games and finished 4th out of 5 in our pool.
22nd September:
Year 4/5/6 went to the National Botanical Garden of Wales on Tuesday 20th September to harvest the vegetables that were planted by the class in the early summer. We returned with a bounty of veg which was supplemented by some vegetables picked by the on duty gardener in the double walled gardens.
21st September:
As you may have noticed, our front page is now adorned with the official Education logo for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games to celebrate our school being accepted as a member of the Get Set Network. As a reward for this we have been given permission to use the logo on our school wiki.
Some upcoming dates:
Thursday 22nd September: 3:30-4:30 Junior Rugby Club (Every Thursday unless notified)
Friday 23rd September: INSET (school closed for pupils)
Monday 26th September: 3:30-5:00 - Literacy Open Evening - all welcome!
Tuesday 27th September: 3:30-5:00 - Computer club - Junior pupils and parents welcome. We are hoping to start a school newspaper!
Thursday 29th September: Recycling and Healthy Eating show for all pupils
Wednesday 5th October: Colorfoto - Individual school photographs
Friday 14th October - Year 5/6 rugby event - details to follow.
Friday 14th October-Thursday 18th October: No Cheeky Monkey Club.
Wednesday 19th October: Harvest festival.
Thursday 20th October: Cheeky Monkeys Halloween Party 3:30-5:20 - £3.00
Friday 21st October: Clothes/costume recycling. Come along and sell clothes and costumes that no longer fit.
Monday 24th-Friday 29th October: Half term
Monday 31st October: INSET (School closed for pupils)
Friday 16th December: Last day in school for pupils.
7th September:
Welcome back to the new academic year. The first phase of our renovations were successfully completed during the summer holidays. We are now the proud owners of new toilet facilities, new tables, chairs and a reorganised school! We now have a Foundation Phase Unit for our pupils with new role play equipment, small world diggers, dumper trucks, models and toys. The reorganisation will not affect playtimes or the start of the day routine but our after school routine will change. Full time Nursery/Reception pupils are to be taken to the Nursery/Reception gate in the morning from 9:05-9:15am. Nursery pupils can be collected from the gate at 3:15pm. Reception pupils will be walked down the drive at 3:30pm by their class teacher. Year 1/2 pupils are to be taken to the infant playground (log-walk) from 9:05-9:15am. They will then be walked down the drive at 3:30pm by their class teacher. In the morning Year 3-6 can use their Junior playground as usual from 9:05-9:15am. At the end of the school day they will walk to the front of the school building to the red line outside Mrs. Price's office with their class teacher.
A big thank you to all the parents who responded to the questionnaire last term. 64.7% of parents stated that they would be interested in an after school computer club. Starting on Tuesday 20th September (dependent on availability) Mr. Roberts will be running a weekly computer club from 3:30-4:30pm for Year 2-6 pupils. Although only 44.1% expressed an interest in a Nursery-Year 2 reading club we are still going ahead with a trial club on Tuesday afternoons from 2:30-3:30pm for both parents/grandparents and pupils to read, play book games and have fun with Miss Williams. BEAR club (Be Enthusiastic About Reading) will begin on Tuesday 20th September. 76.5% of parents expressed an interest in evening parent meetings. Alongside our usual afternoon sessions, Monday 7th November will be available for parents to meet with staff by appointment. More details will follow in October. 85.3% of parents expressed an interest in discovering our approach to literacy and numeracy. As a result we are planning our first literacy coffee afternoon on Monday 26th September where you can visit our libraries, learn about Catch Up, ALK, Cumbrian Reading Intervention and how we teach reading in our school. Clothes/Costume recycling was also popular with an 82.4% interest. Our first recycling after school event will be held on Friday 21st October 3:30-5:00pm so get any outgrown Halloween, Christmas costumes or any other unwanted clothes ready for this sale. There will be no charge for pre-booked tables. Following a positive response from 88.2% of parents, a salad cart is now available on Monday to Thursday for all pupils who take a school dinner option. 70.5% of parents requested a First Aid Club. Mrs. Hobrow will be running this club for Year 4,5,6 pupils on Thursday evenings beginning on 22/09/11 from 3:30-4:30pm.
We are hoping to offer the opportunity of hosting Zumba for children on Mondays from 3:30-4:20pm to Year 2-6 pupils at a cost of £2.00. If anyone is interested please let the school know ASAP.
FoLPS are arranging a psychic evening on Thursday 8th September at 7:30pm at the High Corner. there are still some tickets available so if you are interested please contact Sara Lewis on 07412382745.
If you have moved house or changed mobile numbers during the holidays could you please contact us with details in order that we may update our records.
4th September:
Mr. Roberts and Mr. Llewelyn have been in school over the summer holidays attending to the raised beds in our new garden area. The hard work has paid off as the veg has grown really well, including the picking of one turnip!
14th July:
Details for the remaining events for this term:
Friday 15th July:
Year 6 Leavers Assembly for parents at 2:00pm
Camping event
Monday 18th July:
Infant Disco - 2:30-3:30pm (3:15 for nursery)
Cheeky Monkeys end of term party - £3.50 - 3:30-5:30
Tuesday 19th July:
Year 6 pupils cocktail reception - 4:30
Year 6 Limo Ride - 5:00-5:30
Junior children (excluding Year 6) to arrive at 5:15pm
Junior's amazing 'X-Factor' Disco - 5:30-7:00pm (FREE ENTRY)
12th July:
Year 4/5/6 went to the National Botanic gardens of Wales today to plant their seedlings into our allotment. We feel very fortunate and privileged as a school to once again have an allotment at the Gardens as this year we are one of only two schools in the whole of Wales who has one at the Gardens. We have planted a variety of crops such as sweetcorn, runner beans, beetroot, onions, carrots etc... and will go to pick them at harvest time. If you plan to visit the National Botanic Gardens of Wales during the Summer holidays, please be sure to head to the double-walled garden and visit our plot in the school gardens area.
Mrs. Price, Mr. Roberts and two pupils attended the Heritage School Awards 2011 which were held at Caerphilly Castle. We were invited to attend to receive an award to recognise our school's work on the coal mining history of Llanharan. Two presentation sessions were held in the Great Hall, we were scheduled for the second session. In the interlude between arriving and attending the ceremony, the pupils and staff were entertained by a Knight, in full armour who gave the pupils the opportunity to try on some of his armour and gave a demonstration on the art of sword fighting. We then entered the Great Hall to watch the ceremony and waited patiently as award after award was handed out. It was then our turn as we were awarded £200 for our project.
1st July:
P.C. Daniels came to hold a special assembly today to celebrate the Year 6 Pupils who have been working on the SAFE project. All pupils were awarded with certificates and T-Shirts.
The plastic bottle greenhouse has entered its next phase of development as Mr. Roberts, Mr. Llewelyn and the year 4,5,6 children put together the frame for the roof. All that is left now is the plastic sheeting and the door and our plastic greenhouse is complete!
24th June:
We checked the forecasts, crossed our fingers and went for it! At the second attempt, we decided to hold our sports day today. We started at 1:30pm on the field and the weather held off for us right up until the end of the afternoon. We had events ranging from sprints, obstacle races, relays, standing jump, javelin, marathon and the tug of war. We even had time for the staff Space Hopper race between Mr. Roberts and our three ITT Student Teachers from Swansea Metropolitan University, Mr. Arthur, Miss Grant and Mr. Jones. After close competition all afternoon, the house that triumphed this year was Ty Coch - Red House. Congratulations to all involved.
The Plastic Bottle Greenhouse is up! Year 4/5/6 along with Mr. Roberts and Mr. Llewelyn finally finished off stapling the bottles and 6ft bamboo poles to the frames this morning. They then started to attach all four sides together. All that is needed now is to make a door and roof and our greenhouse is done!!!
8th June:
We had Playforce in today to put together and make our new garden and pond area in our grounds. We have had four raised beds, a covered raised pond, a covered benched area, a water spiral and a mini-beast magnifying glass station. It looks amazing!!!
6th June:
Here are some dates for the diary for our last half term:
Wednesday 8th June - KS2 Visit to London
We will be leaving school at 7:45am for our journey to The Globe Theatre and Tate Modern. Please bring a morning snack, packed lunch and a snack to eat before we leave London. Also please provide non-fizzy drinks for the day. No pocket money is required. Estimated time of return is 7:45pm dependent on traffic.
Wednesday 15th June:
Year 6 begin their 'Safe' Project at school with PC Johnathan and PC Louise.
Tuesday 21st June:
Isit Theatre Company visit our school to perform a PSE show for Junior pupils.
Wednesday 22nd June:
South Wales fire service to run workshops with Year 2 and Year 5 during the morning session.
Friday 24th June:
Sports Day (weather permitting) starting at 1:30pm.
Wednesday 28th June:
Year 6 'Y Pant' taster day.
Friday 1st July:
PC Louise 'Keeping Safe' workshop with Nursery/Reception pupils.
Wednesday 6th July:
Governers Reporting to Parents evening. 6:00pm in hall, all parents welcome.
Wednesday 6th & 7th July:
Year 6 Pencoed Comprehensive 'Taster' days.
Wednesday 13th July & Thursday 14th July:
Year 6 cycling profficiency lessons. Helmets and bicycles to be brought into school for this practical course.
Friday 15th July:
Pupils and Parents Camping night. See below for more details.
Tuesday 19th July:
End of Term Disco - 2.15-3.15 Nursery & Infants. 4:30-5:00 - Year 6 Leavers cocktails and canapes. 5:00-5:30 - Year 6 Limo ride (See Sara Lewis of the PTA for details). 5:30-6:30 - Disco for all Juniors.
Friday 15th July - Camping event:
This year, FOLPS will be holding the very first camping evening on our school field. From 5:30pm you will be able to pitch your tent and join us for an outdoor disco, quiz, treasure hunt and bouncy castle. There will be food stalls to purchase snacks, a BBQ, ice lollies and soft drinks. The cost is £5.00 per tent for a maximum of 5 persons. Extra campers are £1.00 per person. There needs to be an adult (over 18 years) per tent to take responsibility for the accompanying children. The £5.00 includes your tent, 4 free bouncy castle 'rides' per child, free disco and free children's treasure hunt. Camper vans or caravans are welcome but will need to be pitched near the Junior playground. Campervan/caravan cost is £10.00 for a maximum of 5 people, one being over 18. If you would like to join us for the evening until 9:30pm you can purchase and evening pass at £1.00 per person.
27th May:
Mr. Roberts' class visited Ynysyngharad Park in Pontypridd today to take part in the 'Love Where You Live' event. They had a thoroughly enjoyable time meeting Daleks, the TARDIS, trying out British Transport Police riot gear and equipment, running obstacle courses, holding owls, taking part in a 3m tall Dalek recycling World Record attempt, playing football (Mr. Arthur's team beat Mr. Roberts' team 3-2, though, we all know the disallowed goal for Mr. Roberts' team counted...) and many other cool things!
26th May:
Due to the large amount of rain that has fallen today and the last few days we have had to take the decision to cancel sports day tomorrow (27th May). This decision was taken due to potential safety risks that arise due to the wet field. Our provisional new date for our sports day is Friday 24th June.
Due to sports day being cancelled, we are now asking for Mr. Roberts class to wear school uniform for tomorrow's 'Love Where You Live' trip to Ynsyngharad Park in Pontypridd. We would like the children to wear rain coats and sensible footwear.
25th May: (Newsletter)
* Thank you very much for your support in collecting both Sainsbury and TESCO vouchers this year. We have collected enough vouchers to purchase two HD Flip Cams, a data recorder, a dark den, recordable speech bubbles and a collection of sport equipments for PE sessions.
* Renovations are continuing at school and this term has seen the development of the Nursery/Reception literacy room. This space has been totally transformed with nursery rhyme and storybook character murals, new bookcases, cupboards, a new table and chairs, puppet theatre and £3,000 of new books are on order!
* Also, new desks and ergonomically designed chairs are in three out of the four classes. Year 3/4 are due to be renovated before the Summer holidays
* Mr. Roberts class has been invited to the 'Love Where You Live' event at Ynysyngharad Park in Pontypridd on the morning of Friday 27th May. The transport and entrance costs have been funded by the local authority but a packed lunch will be required. Pupils will return between 1:30-2:00pm, in time hopefuly to complete their sports day events. The children are being asked to wear their sports day clothes (tracksuit bottoms not shorts) in the morning so that they can go straight up to the field as soon as they arrive back in school rather than wasting any time in getting changed.
* Sports Day, weather permitting, will take place on Friday 27th May from 1:30pm onwards. If the field is too wet and poses a health and safety risk we will inform parents by 9:00am on Friday. Keep checking the website and school information for a new date if the event has to be cancelled.
* We are very pleased to announce that we have achieved our first Healthy Schools Green Leaf. We were assessed on the 18th May and we were highly commended for the work initiated at school.
* Half Term holidays - Monday 30th-Friday 3rd June - Return to school on Monday 6th June
Last day of Term - Wednesday 20th July.
* Miss Gill Webb, our catch up teacher and support assistant sadly lost her battle against cancer last Wednesday. We will be collecting donations for Velindre Hospital in her memory this week. If any parent would like to make a donation please see Mrs. Henderson. Miss Webb will be greatly missed and our thoughts are with her family, especially her sister, Mrs. Hopkins.
11th May:
There has been much excitement this opening fortnight of the Summer Term as we have seen many changes to our school. Firstly Mr. Roberts' class have planted 12 fruit trees (a range of apple, pear, plum and cherry) at the front of the school grounds. Next both Year 4/5/6 and 1/2 took delivery of new tables and chairs for their classroom. After a lot of hard (and at times confusing) work, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Arthur and Mr. Llewelyn put them together and set them out in the classrooms. They look fantastic! Thirdly, the creative wizards from Brighter Ideas have been in to transfer the Nursery & Reception group-work room into an amazing woodlands and fiarytale themed Literacy Room. Finally, Year 4/5/6 have, at last, started to make the plastic bottle greenhouse. Yes! It is coming!!!
27th April:
The Royal Wedding appeared in the Pontypridd and Llantrisant Observer.
15th April:
After yesterday's Easter Bonnet 'Catwalk', we today held our Royal Wedding Street Party and Treasure Hunt. All of our children (and staff) came dressed as princesses, princes, wedding guests and one waiter... We started the afternoon off by splitting the school into small teams comprised of children from all four classes working together. They then had a list of 15 Royal Wedding themes questions with the knowledge that somewhere around the school grounds, Mr. Roberts and Mr. Arthur had hidden cards with the answers on. They then had to match their discovered answer to a question. We then moved onto our street party with a long table being errected outside the fron of the school with plates and plates of party food. Much fun was had, many smiles were on display and it all capped a wonderful way to end the term.
11th April:
Some dates for the diary!
Thursday 14th April - AM Pupils visiting Llanharan Church for an Easter Service. PM - Easter Bonnet Parade at 2:00pm in the school hall. All are welcome, complimentary tickets are available from Mrs. Henderson.
Friday 15th April - PM Royal Wedding Street Party - pupils to come dressed as a prince, princess or a wedding guest. Wear your tiaras, crowns or Easter Bonnets. Please can you bring a packet of biscuits, pre-packed cakes, fruit, crisps, sausage rolls etc... to share at our party. This is also the last day of term!
Tuesday 3rd May - Children return to school
Tuesday 10th May - Class photos
Monday 30th May - Friday 3rd June - Whitsun Half Term Holidays
Wednesday 20th July - Last school day for children!
We are delighted to welcome three teachers, Mr. Jones, Mr, Arthur and Miss Grant who will be joining us for a period of 8 weeks in Nursery/Reception, Year 1/2 and Year 4/5/6 to gain further teaching experience. We would also like to welcome Mr. Stephens who will be covering PPA sessions. Mr. Stephens will also be expertly playing the piano for the Easter Bonnet Parade.
9th April:
Our thirteen intrepid explorers have returned from their adventures at Manor Adventure in Abernant. to read about their exploits click here.
18th March:
We are pleased to announce that due to our messy hair day today we have raided £109.00 for Comic Relief. Da iawn pawb!
16th March:
The last installment of Year 4/5/6's 2011 Six Nations Podcast has been added to the Podcast page here. These podcasts have been great fun to make for both the pupils and Mr. Roberts. We hope you've enjoyed listening to them and we are now looking at new ways of continuing the podcast series.
10th March:
Our Year 5&6 class have recenty been fortunate to receive a fantastic role play feature to enhance their learning environment. 'Brighter Ideas', the design company who did such a fantastic job with our Infant's 'Under the Sea' library have been busy working away at designing, making and installing a science role play area under the theme 'Frankestein's Castle Laboratory'. This area can be used as an enhanced learning area for science but can also be adapted for literacy activities such as Macbeth's Castle etc...
8th March:
We are once more starting to collect TESCO vouchers available every time you spend £10 at a TESCO store ore garage. These vouchers are an invaluable source for helping our school obtain ICT resources to help enhance the education of our pupils. We would ask that you once again encourage friends, family and neighbours to collect vouchers on our school's behalf to ensure that we can try to reach as high a total as possible. This year's TESCO vouchers are white and these will be the only type of vouchers we will be able to colect.
1st March - Dydd Gwyl Dewi Sant!
We held our annual St.David's Day Eisteddfod this afternoon in our school hall, where our pupils performed in choirs, duets and took part in country dancing in front of an audience of parents. Certificates were awarded to pupils for competitions in handwriting and art which had been completed at home or in school in the period leading up to St. David's Day. These points were added to the points awarded to the houses for the age group choirs, duets and contry dancing. The competition was close between the three houses with Ty Gwyrdd coming third with 110 points, Ty Glas coming second with 134 points and this year's winners Ty Coch taking the trophy with 164 points.
Full results can be found by opening the following File:
8th February:
Comic Relief Red Noses will be available at the cost of £1.00 from Mrs. Henderson's office.
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13th January:
Due to unforseen circumstances, the planned INSET Day for Friday 28th January has been brought forward to Friday 21st January. Children should not attend school on this day. Apologies for any inconvenience that this causes.
17th December:
Due to the extreme weather conditions, we have had to take the decision to close the school today. The pupils will return to school on Wendesday 5th January.
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1st December:
The 7th and 8th of December sees the arrival of this year's Christmas Concerts. Tickets are still available at £1.00 for all dates. Tuesday 7th has the Junior Performance at 2:00pm and the Infants at 5:30pm. Wednesday 8th has the Infants at 2:00pm and the Juniors at 5:30pm. We will also be holding a raffle at each performance with choloclate hampers and other goodies as prizes. All proceeds from ticket sales will go to funding ride-on toys for our infant classes and updating Junior reading areas (more exciting renovations are planned for 2011!). For the evening performances we are asking or pupils to be brought to their classes no earlier than 5:00pm, doors for the concert will also open at the same time. Both concerts are approximately 1 hour long andd children are to be collected from class teachers. If you make arrangements for another person to collect your child, parents must inform the school accordingly. Please note that there will be no after school activity clubs on both evenings.
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We are trialling the curriculum based online Mathematics and Literacy homework programme in our Key Stage 2 (Junior) classes from January 2011. All pupils will be given a username and password to access differentiated homework online. Each week Mr. Roberts and Mrs. Hobrow will be uploading and choosing activities to support their class teaching specifically for your child. Your child will be able to complete the homework activites within the given week. On this homework website there are also video presentations so that pupils can 'see and hear' concepts as a reminder of the teaching and learning carried out in class. Pupils will receive automated and instant evaluations of their activities. Also, extra homework will be set if we have any school closure days (e.g. cases of snow). Passwords and more information will be sent out in January 2011. There is an attached slip with the paper form of today's letter for parents to fill in to inform the school of the state of internet access that the pupils are able to obtain to let us know of those who would possibly need paper forms of the same homework.
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25th November:
Our procedures for the school under extreme weather such as the snowy conditions much of the UK has experienced recently is as follows. We will only close school as a last resort and every effort will be made to keep the school open for as long as possible. However, on occasions, due to health and safety concerns we may need to close. If the school is to be closed from the beginning of the school day a text message will be sent, the school answering machine will be updated and a message will appear here on our wiki. If we need to close the school during the day you will be informed by text (it is important that you keep the school updated with any change of contact numbers.) If you work a distance from the school, please make arrangements with a fried or member of the family to be on hand to collect your child. If you make arrangements for another person to collect your child, parents must inform the school accordingly.
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On Friday 3rd December, Janice Gregory AM will be opening our renovated school library. If any parents would like to have a look at the newly improved library you are invited to have a tour from 2:30pm on the same day.
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11th November:
Llanharan Primary School has been awarded a Big Lottery Fund award for a wildlife project. The story was taken up by the Pontypridd Observer and the story can be read by clicking on the following internet link which will go open up in a new window.
Llanharan Primary School gets Big Lottery Fund for wildlife project.
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21st October:
Cheeky Monkey Club held their Halloween Party after school today. There was food, music, arts and craft activities, games and some special activities such as the 'bobbing for apples' (a lot harder than it looked) and a pinata which was finally broken by David from Year 5. The fancy dress awards went as follows; 3rd. Iestyn Morris, 2nd. Courtney O'Neill and 1st. Cameron Armstrong.
11th October 2010:
We are delighted to announce that we have been successful in a National Lottery bid to further develop our outdoor environment. We will be creating a herb garden, seating area and allotment area for our pupils to enjoy throughout the day.
In the half term leading up to Christmas we will be totally updating our library.group work room. We're planning themed murals, new bookcases, carpet and new furniture. Our school council are currently coordinating the "redevelopment" and the whole school will be involved in designing the wall covering mural. Invitations will be sent out to parents/guardians to come and have a look at the re-styled library at Christmas.
We would like to say a big thank you to the PTA (FoLPS) and the Community Shop for their very kind donations. As a result of their hard work and generosity we can go ahead with our school's 30th Anniversary Celebration Mural. The children, and members of the community, will be designing and making a ceramic mural to be placed on the school wall nearest the driveway. This will certainly brighten up the front of our school! The project will begin in November and be completed by Easter 2011. In the Summer Term the school will be hosting its official 30th Anniversary Celebrations.
Many thanks to all the children who donated tins etc... for our harvest collection. Food Bank, the receiving charity asked me to convey their appreciation.
On Friday 22nd October the PTA will be hosting a Halloween Disco for all pupils. The cost to attend the disco is £1 and this includes a drink and crisps. The disco times will be; Mrs. Padgett & Mrs. Killick's class (Infants) = 3:15-4:15 pm. Mrs. Hobrow & Mr. Roberts class = 4:30-5:30 pm. If any pupils would like to wear Halloween costumes to school on Friday 22nd October we ask if they could bring a chocolate donation for our school Chocolate Hampers e.g. bar of chocolates (minstrels, buttons) or even a small box of chocolates.
We will be holding choir practice on a Wednesday evening from 3:30-4:30 pm. The choir will be led by Miss Johns our new (and musically talented) member of staff who is currently covering PPA & Language Support. The choir is open to pupils from Year 2-6. Any pupils who attend need to be collected from the school lobby at 4:30 pm. There is no cost for this club and the choir will begin on Wednesday 3rd November. If your child would like to attend the choir please complete the form attached to the paper form of this newsletter by Friday 15th October.
We currently have spaces for children wishing to take violin lessons. In the Circumstances we are now offering the opportunity for Year 2 children to take part if they are interested. Please complete the form attached to the paper form of this newsletter if you wish your child to be considered.
21st September 2010
Year 4/5/6 visited Big Pit in Blaenavon today as part of their studies in their topic 'Coal - Black Gold'. We started off the trip with a visit to old Maggie Morgan in her home who talked us through her life as a door-girl in the mines. Her story of her memories had the whole group enthralled. We then moved to the underground trip. The whole group, adults included, got 'booted and suited' with miner helmets, lamps and battery belts. After just a few minutes of wearing the kit, the children expressed how heavy and uncomfortable they were. Our guide, Andrew 'Bedrock' led us into the cage and down 90 feet underground. We then walked through the mines, with our guide stopping us every time something of interest appeared including the pit pony stables and the big heavy ventilation doors. It was at these doors that we were all asked to turn off our lamps to experience 'pitch dark'. A return to the surface and a visit to see the canaries rounded off an enjoyable trip.
I have moved the news from the previous two years into the archive section as the page was becoming very large!